Liraglutide Effect on Weight and A1C in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Real-World Data from a Single Tertiary Care Center in Saudi Arabia by Awadh AlRashidi, Rasha AlArfaj, Abdullah Al Ruqaib, Emad Masuadi, Munirah AlFaraj, Yousef Al-Saleh, Rakan AlEnezi, Moeber M Mahzari, Mohammed Z. Aljulifi

“…Over the 24-month observational period, significant reductions in body mass index (38.6 kg/m2 to 37 kg/m2), body weight (99.3 kg to 96 kg), and HbA1c levels (8.9% to 7.8%) (all P < 0.01) were seen. Conclusion: Liraglutide reduced HbA1c levels and weight and affected multiple metabolic markers in patients with T2DM in a real-world setting in Saudi Arabia.…”
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Addressing the Rural and Underserved Healthcare Workforce Needs: Residency Specialty Selection and Workforce Outcomes of the WWAMI AHEC Scholars Program by Kenya Morales-Luna, Stacey Morrison, Toby Keys

“…Data was collected on graduates' residency selection for MD/DO graduates. For all other participants, we documented their current healthcare professions, practice locations (rural and/or medically underserved areas), and whether the practice was a federally qualified health center. …”
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Multi-Functional Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Security Communication Systems Under Imperfect CSI of Eavesdroppers by Rui-Bao Zhang, Dian-Wu Yue, Yu Sun

“…Simulation results show that: 1) All MF-RIS schemes achieve better secrecy performance gains than other existing RIS designs; and 2) Compared to the optimal independent phase shifts, coupled phase shifts of MF-RIS only lead to a slight performance loss.…”
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Early Stroke Prediction Methods for Prevention of Strokes by Mandeep Kaur, Sachin R. Sakhare, Kirti Wanjale, Farzana Akter

“…The experimental research outcome reveals that all the algorithms taken up for the research study perform well on the prediction problem of early stroke detection, but GRU performs the best with 95.6% accuracy, whereas biLSTM gives 91% accuracy and LSTM gives 87% accuracy and FFNN gives 83% accuracy. …”
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Nonpharmacological Complementary Interventions for the Management of Pain after Third Molar Surgery: An Umbrella Review of Current Meta-Analyses by Parsa Firoozi, Saulo Gabriel Moreira Falci, Seong-Gon Kim, Leon A. Assael

“…In cases with a low amount of overlap among meta-analyses, all eligible studies were included. Also, citation matrices were constructed to address overlap. …”
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Rapid growth of  firms after recession: evaluating financial results by V. V. Spitsin, M. A. Hasanov, O. B. Yudakhina

“…To compare financial indicators between them, we have used dispersion analysis. We have found that all the groups of the firms with the restarting growth significantly improved their financial performance (size, turnover, profitability) and outperformed the group of the companies that did not show the restarting growth. …”
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Developing High School Prep Class Students’ Verbal Skils by Using Web 2.0 Application by Gürbüz Ocak, Hateme Aysel Kuzu, Akın Karakuyu

“…With the importance of learning English and being able to communicate in the learned language, language education has become a considerable issue in all age groups. This important subject has become more difficult to implement with the Covid-19 pandemic. …”
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Machine Learning and hybrid models for assessing climate change impacts on runoff in the Kasilian catchment, Northern Iran by Farhad Hajian, Hossein Monshizadeh Naeen

“…The results indicate that GEP and ANN models surpassed the HEC-HMS model across all performance metrics, including RMSE and NSE, when applied individually. …”
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Incidence and morphological study of lice infested chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Nineveh governorate, Iraq by Nadia H. mohammed, Rawaa G. Mohammed, Waad K. Khalaf

“…M. stramineus lice were the most prevalent, as they were observed on all parts of the chicken's body, recording a high infestation rate 61.5%, while the wing lice L. caponis recorded 30.8%. …”
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The concept of civil law incentives by Yu. I. Chalyi

“…In the context of organising and conducting competitions, winners may also be awarded moral incentives. All parties, not just the party to whom the incentive is applied, are interested in the positive consequences of the use of incentives in civil legal relations. …”
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Skin Biopsy in the Context of Dermatological Diagnosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Chrysovalantis Korfitis, Stamatis Gregoriou, Christina Antoniou, Andreas D. Katsambas, Dimitris Rigopoulos

“…Skin biopsy is an established method for allying the dermatologist in overcoming the diagnostic dilemmas which occur during consultations. However neither do all skin biopsies produce a conclusive diagnosis nor the dermatologists routinely perform this procedure to every patient they consult. …”
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Comparison of vascular complications between external iliac and internal iliac artery anastomosis of the donor renal artery in renal transplant recipients by G. Manoj Kumar, Sunil Ashok, J. Suresh Kumar

“…Out of the six cases of transplant renal artery thrombosis, 4 (66.6%) were seen in anastomosis with EIA. All 3 (100%) cases of TRAS were seen in anastomosis to the EIA. …”
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Investigation of growth and survival of some pathogens in koumiss by Mustafa Atasever, Fatih Ramazan İstanbullugil

“…E. coli O157:H7 (Group 1), L. monocytogenes (Group 2) and S. aureus (Group 3) were added to the raw mare’s milk that would used to producing koumiss and a combination of all three pathogens (Group 4) was inoculated. These microorganisms were introduced at 106 CFU/mL concentration into the raw mare’s milk, which served as the base for koumiss production. …”
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Les agglomérations de Germanie Seconde aux ive et ve s. apr. J.-C. by Raymond Brulet

“…But the best vehicle for habitat and economy is represented by the Meuse valley which runs across this political entity from north to south and shelters all the resources necessary for a continuous development of sites, many of which will form resilient towns.…”
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Modern Approaches to the Assessment of Productive Qualities of Sheep of Ascania Fine-Wool Breed by Olena Karatieieva, Vadim Posukhin

“…At the same time, sexual demorphism in the manifestation of signs of entropy was revealed, so the ewes of all experimental groups tended to reduce the level of unconditional entpropy. …”
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Comparison of Mechanical Resistance to Maximal Torsion Stress in Original and Nonoriginal or Compatible Prosthetic Implant Screws: An In Vitro Study by António Sérgio Silva, José Manuel Mendes, Tiago Araújo, Carlos Aroso, Pedro Barreiros

“…The fracture points were recorded and compared among all samples. To compare the mean values of the fracture torques, t-tests were performed using the reference values associated with each brand and the sample results. …”
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Personality, opinion strength, and social media use – not such a straightforward relationship by Melissa Cox, Bernadine Cocks, Susan E. Watt, Elizabeth C. Temple

“…However, the relationship between personality and opinion strength (i.e. how extreme an opinion is disregarding favourability), and potential moderating effects of social media use on that relationship have yet to be investigated.Method Participants (N = 536) completed surveys measuring social media usage, personality, and opinions on various social issues.Results Several personality traits predicted opinion direction or strength on at least one social issue. When all social issues were combined to measure overall progressive opinions, openness and extraversion predicted opinion direction, and openness predicted opinion strength. …”
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How Does Social Mobilization Shape the Collective Coproduction of Urban Community Regeneration in China? by Jinpeng Wu, Yuting Chen, Ruiqi Shi, Jing Xiong

“…When local governments adopt all-around, point-to-point, targeted, or random mobilization schemes, this often results in four corresponding patterns of community collective coproduction: comprehensive, generalized, club, and formalistic. …”
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Development and Validation of Cloud-based Heart Rate Variability Monitor by Sushma N. Bhat, Ghanshyam D. Jindal, Gajanan D. Nagare

“…Results: Pearson’s correlation for spectrum values has been found to be more than 0.97 in all the subjects. Mean error, SD of error, and range of error are found to be in acceptable range. …”
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Searching for effective strategies to reach boys and young men; a mixed-methods study protocol for youth clinics in Sweden by Mazen Baroudi

“…Lastly, Q-methodology will be used to rank all identified strategies. Healthcare providers and managers will rank these strategies based on their perceived effectiveness and feasibility while boys and young men will rank the interventions based on perceived effectiveness. …”
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